Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Text: The deal purportedly involves "retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation," but given you can't trust any of the companies involved, the Trump administration, or what's left of U.S. regulators, that means absolutely nothing. Oracle will be "overseeing data protection," but that means nothing as well given Oracle is run by an authoritarian-enabling billionaire with a long history of his own privacy abuses.